¶1No error of law, prejudicial to the defendants, is shown in the rulings below. The evidence warranted the in» *94ference that the bill and protest were forwarded to the plaintiff upon the next day and by the next mail after the protest, and were received by the defendants as soon as if they had been forwarded directly to them. Cabot Bank v. Warner, 10 Allen, 522. The defendants appeared upon the face of the bill to be themselves the payees and indorsers, the word “ agents ” was a mere designatio personarum, and paroi evidence was inadmissible to discharge them. Tucker Manufacturing Co. v. Fairbanks, 98 Mass. 101. Exceptions overruled.
120 Mass. 92
Bartlett v. Hawley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 11, 1876
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1876-03-11
Contract upon a bill of exchange, dated September 9, 1873, drawn by Henry Clews & Co., upon Clews, Habicht & Co. of London, payable thirty days after sight to “ F. A. Hawley & Co., Agents,” indorsed by “ F. A. Hawley & Co., Agents,” to the order of W. A. Chase, who indorsed it in blank.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently July 1952
1 state decisions
Relies on Tucker Manufacturing Co. v. Fairbanks
Cited in Cyclopedic (1922)’s definition of “Descriptio Personae”
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1876-03-11
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